Originally Posted by
Judy
Absolutely, character is a crucial issue of selecting our candidates. It's what kind of character do you want? Do you want the "character" that leaves run-down cities and blighted areas run-down and blighted with no jobs, no money, no nice buildings or housing for people to live and work in where thieves, murderers, rapists, gangs, prostitutes and drug dealers are the city council? Or do you want the "character" of someone who spends their time trying to fix an area, to improve it, to create jobs, to make it clean, safe, nice and appealing for people to work and live in and visit and spend money and by doing so runs the thieves, murderers, rapists, gangs, prostitutes and drug dealers out of town?
It depends on your end game, what "character" you want in public office. Someone who fixes decrepit blighted areas or someone who continues to ignore them. And when it's local government doing these things, the "characters" you need to be vetting are state and local government politicians, not ones running for President of the United States.
There are far more properties "taken" by state and local governments for delinquent income and property taxes than eminent domain. I suppose you're fine with that, right? Government gets those without any compensation at all.